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Maui practitioners over the years have studied many types of Tantra. Some more classical renditions involve solo meditation practices often guided by a Hindhu or Tibetan teacher. For educational purposes,\u00a0 6 Tantra paths will be described that also include sacred healing touch, sensual body touch, and temple massage styles that have evolved over time, migrating and morphing over many years. These 6 paths are often described as: White, Red, Rose, Black, Dark, and Indigo. \u00a0Each Maui Tantra rendition is defined here briefly, partly in relation to sexuality and the sensual. Of course, there is much more to this subject than stated in simple fashion below\u2026<\/p>\n
Tantra has been around for thousands of years and continues to evolve as eastern philosophy meets western psychology. Surrendering to what is \u2013 in every moment, with reverence to the miracle of Life, one asks: Who am I? \u00a0What is True?<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https:\/\/hawaiitantra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Angelika_Bergen_Yoga.jpg” alt=”Tantra yoga woman sitting on rock at sunset” title_text=”Maui offers beautiful sunsets for tantra yoga meditations” admin_label=”Woman doing Yoga on rock” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_color=”#eee9eb” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#ebe5e8 0%|#efe0e6 100%” background_color_gradient_start=”#ebe5e8″ background_color_gradient_end=”#efe0e6″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Colors of Tantra” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n SIX MAUI TANTRA PATHS TOWARD GREATER EMPOWERMENT<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – The 6 colors described” _builder_version=”4.19.5″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Often solo and highly spiritual, White Tantra attracts natural celibates, mystics, and deep meditators. Steeped in mystery and often manifesting the very highest siddha powers, these persons often hide from view. Certain key persons, such as the Dalai Lama, are in full view. White Tantra also can include subtle forms of energetic healing touch. Arousal is rare and if its there, it is soon re-channeled elsewhere.<\/p>\n White Tantra can also include different combinations of yoga, dance, and song.\u00a0 Any creative expression of a devotional state that is somatic, slow and not sexual at all… could be considered White Tantra.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ritualized meditative and sensual practices are done with a partner. Red Tantra can possibly involve sexual positioning, entering into openings, exchanging fluids. Almost no one on earth does Red Tantra correctly. Both heart ease and caution are needed. It is ultimately meant to be selfless, completely pure, detached, and one with one\u2019s \u201cIshta Deva\u201d, meaning chosen deified Internal Consort. Ejaculate is not supposed to be lost, as it usually drains the Chi needed for liberation. Needless to say, tons of people enjoy Red Tantra and figure: \u201cPractice makes perfect\u201d. \u00a0However, there are many studious, more traditional Tantra enthusiasts that feel this is just a rationalization. Hence the term \u201cNeo-tantra\u201d was born in the USA.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rose Tantra was birthed perhaps in the USA in the 80\u2019s, very possibly on Maui. The idea is to strike a midway point between the White and the Red styles that are so traditional in India. In Rose, people can still partner up, but they play \u201con the edges\u201d. They slow things down, breathe, contemplate, open their hearts\u2026 They can be yummy, touch gently, and do sacred healing massage work, while still practicing to move the energy upward and away from the need to enter into any orifices of the body. There is no sex of any kind and it is a safer approach than Red, for practicing\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Most people consider this to be evil, or Void of the heart altogether. If while you are performing something Tantric, you say or think: \u201cGod, you are not invited\u201d \u2026or\u2026 \u201cHeart, you are not invited here\u201d, you could find yourself in the Black Tantra department, creating black magic, not white. However, there are people that have a completely different take on this. More people are beginning to think that Black Tantra has had a prejudicial \u201cbad rap\u201d all for nothing\u2026 that it actually means \u201cChaos\u201d or the Dark Hidden Goddess being Unveiled in all Her Power and Mystique. Perhaps some people are turned off by dogmatic religions to such a degree, that \u00a0“God The Father” \u00a0is no longer invited… but the Divine Feminine is, or one’s own true Self is invited.\u00a0 Still, with or without religion, like many, I do not dare risk any practice that could loose its Central Heart Focus, involving head -heart- gut, \u00a0or father-child-mother, or whatever triune balance is needed for a full rainbow spectrum of real love and compassion for the good of all. One’s sacred alignment and personal creed is very important, when interacting with others in the powerful shamanic field of Tantra.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This “50 shades” style seems to have lost some of it’s appeal, in recent times. Here, two consenting adults are pushing those edges more than the norm. It may be very mild, like some light rope restraining, or a blind fold, though some persons do more daring practices. It is a way to see that pain and pleasure are both polarities that are either tools to\u2026 or distractions from\u2026 sitting in the center of Core Reality, which transcends both. It also teaches one to honor boundaries!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some \u201cshadow play\u201d or \u201cedge work\u201d is enacted in what is sometimes termed D\/S (domination\/submission). Sometimes it’s just called kinky, more primal, “darkish” or more eccentric. Actually, all Tantra is supposed to be addressing the shadow parts; and not doing spiritual bypass by hiding in the “Light\u201d, while denying one’s own “baggage”. \u00a0Some people are just naturally edgy and they have every right to play safely and respectfully in this way. This path requires honest awareness to actually be Tantric with it. Instead, it often traps one in a set-up that never evolves at all. Teachings and guidance can help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Indigo Tantra was born from my own personal longing for freedom as my own truest Self. It is to be in the world, but not of the world. Indigo Tantra is highly esoteric and yet has no rules at all. It is filled with wonder and pure spontaneity and can be playful or very serious, yet always vulnerable. It holds it’s own purity naturally, no matter what is happening. This is a genuinely light-hearted wish of mine, that perhaps others would relate to. You can make up your own custom Tantric “color\u201d and style too. Who knows, maybe it will catch on with others! \u00a0Lots of colors make up the rainbow. You are free to experiment and play, but don\u2019t get your tail wet! \u00a0Tantra is actually a big responsibility, too.<\/p>\n Read Detailed FAQs on Maui Tantra Sanctuary Sessions<\/u><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”The Intent of Tantra” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”SENSUALITY MEETS DIVINITY” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n SENSUALITY MEETS DIVINITY<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Much of the world population has grown……” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]Much of the world population has grown weary of suppressing their own innate sexual nature. We need education, expression and nourishment on every level. Clearly, human sexuality is highly complex, nuanced and mysterious. Most religious cultures have tried to keep us safe by steering us away? Hence things only got worse through the ignoring, repressing, outlawing and downright vilifying it\u2026 even locking people up for it\u2026 even stoning them to death for it.<\/p>\n Seems the time is now ~ All paths eventually can lead one to the truth, when sincere. Some approaches are wiser than others, but it is often a subjective situation. <\/span>Whatever portal of sacred-sexuality, fetish\/kink, polyamory, trans\/cd\/tv, bi-sexuality, celibacy or combination\u2026we can learn what is non-judgemental and of a pure heart. Together we can learn this as a collective. This seems to be where we are now.<\/p>\n Do you desire the blissful merging into a state of transcendent, ecstatic, universal love; or would you rather feel captured, playfully preyed-upon, taken, dominant, predatory, slutty, wild, perverse or primitive? \u00a0Is one path more suitable to you than the other? \u00a0Can you combine? \u00a0Have you ever even thought about this before? There is such depth of knowledge and wisdom available around human sexuality and the human spirit. Ultimately, all Tantra leads one to what is\u00a0beyond<\/em> all name and form altogether… to “the screen behind the movie images.” \u00a0That is an enlightened state. \u00a0Real Tantra leads us there. Intent and purity are everything. There are many potential distractions along the way; \u00a0yet, there is a graced way to feel joy on this path, too.<\/span><\/p>\n The original Tantra is more valuable today than ever before. It is about asking the big questions: Who am I, how vast, how divine, and how much energy and life force do I chose to handle? \u00a0What is my true purpose here? \u00a0What is my greatest love expression?<\/p>\nColors of Tantra<\/h1>\n
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White Tantra<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n
Red Tantra<\/em><\/span>
<\/span><\/h4>\nRose Tantra<\/h4>\n
Black Tantra<\/em><\/h4>\n
Shadow Tantra<\/h4>\n
Indigo Tantra<\/h4>\n
The Intent of \u00a0Tantra<\/h1>\n